Topic: Can Priests "Ride" With A Hardened Vet. / Grenadiers Retinue ?

[Narwhal]

 Just wondering if a priest can join a unit, and use its transport (say 8 Grenadiers, 1 Vet Sgt, and a Priest).

[Retired-Captain Alexander]

yes you can, but first there must be a priest in all command squads and platoon squads and after that they may join storm troopers, infantry squads and armoured fist squads.

For each type of advisor, one must be allocated to the command hq. Any others of that type are then allocated to platoon hq. If all command squads have an advisor of a given type then the remainder are individually assigned to infantry squads, armoured fist squads and storm trooper squads.

When a advisor is attached to a unit then it becomes part of that unit.

May the Emperor protect

[Major Krämer]

So unless you play grenadiers, you'll have to buy a lot of priests if you wan't that

[Koonitz]

You'll notice that grenadiers is not in that list that Alexander quoted. Priests may not be assigned to Grenadier squads. You will have to buy a Storm Trooper squad as an Elites choice, and field it like a Grenadier squad to get a Priest in that squad.
Grenadiers ARE NOT Storm Troopers.

[wper34]

Yup, Kootniz is correct about this for Grenadiers not being able to take the priests...

Howecer, having Grenadiers can allow the IG players to be able to field cheapest troops units for fulfilling the basic requirement in FOC. This would still allow the possibility to field other units in the Elite choices with the priest as you do not have to allocate them into the command squads. (Except the HQ command squad which requires one priest to be fielded in order to get the other priests into the units you want)

Note that it is still a good idea to have at least 1 infantry platoon for getting the infantry support. Many IG armies work best & are competitive with the basic infantry being the backbone of the army. So filling the basic requirement with only Grenadiers would not really help the army to be competitive. You could still do that, but it would require some good tactics & precise decision to allow the army being effective... (Basically, it is harder to play with only Grenadiers as the troop choice in the army)